Admin wrote: I could have sworn that only Apple was making Apple-compatible computers. I remember well the era in which Apple famously granted—then revoked—licenses to Motorola and others to manufacture hardware that would run Mac OS. As I read today that a company called Psystar Corp. (www.psystar.com) was selling “an alternative to pricey Apple hardware,” I thought the rules had changed while I wasn’t looking. Or did they? Unfortunately, the whole thing appears to be a complete scam, and one that almost every media outlet that covered it fell for hook, line and sinker. Googling…
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Today,
i have a small problem in a game, sometimes the background deletes and the players fall off the screen. i know why this happens but i can’t fix it.
so i wanted to know if there was anyway to detect that the background is not anymore here.
the background is a graphic.
if the programme was able to see it deleted, it would make it come back.
anyone can help?
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Admin wrote: I’m no Microsoft basher, but I’ve never hidden my personal loathing for Vista. Yet even I was surprised to learn this week just how cynical Microsoft appears to be regarding Vista.It started the other day when a Steve Ballmer speech to the Microsoft MVPs leaked out. According to several news sources including this one from ArsTechnica, Ballmer called Vista “a work in progress” at a Microsoft MVP meeting. Well, I could have told you that. It’s slow, annoying and smacks of a less than stellar effort by the Microsoft development team, but people have paid big money for this OS and they have a…
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I have a MC on stage that looks like a Newspaper page, where the content of the page (about us, gallery,contact us) appear like headings on the page. The whole page is draggable so that you could drag the page around to go to specific areas. The MC also contains clickable links inside it( contact us section has an email id which when clicked opens Outlook Express). Here’s the AS i used to make the MC draggable..
newspaper_mc.onPress = function() {
startDrag(this);
};
newspaper_mc.onRelease = function() {
stopDrag();
};
newspaper_mc.onReleaseOutside = function() {
stopDrag();
};
When i hover the mouse over the links, they don’t work,i.e. the cursor doesnt change to the hand icon..
Any help will be appreciated…
P.S. I’m Using Flash 8
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Admin wrote: There’s an interesting story up at The Consumerist at the moment about some chap called Bill who has been charged $1632 for a single Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade license. It would appear what has happened is that Windows Live Marketplace kept saying to try again later when Bill pressed the submit button for his upgrade license purchase, when what it should have said was we have just debited your bank account $233.15 so whatever you do don’t keep pressing that button.Unfortunately for Bill, that’s exactly what he did. Another six times in fact.Bill insists that “upon selecting “submit”…
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Today,
From the following code, I want to change the visual appearance of the top main menu when the mouse onRollover the top main menu and the sub menu is displayed. If the mouse rolls out of the main menu and down and over the submenu, I want it to retain the onRollover state of the main menu. If the mouse rolls out of the submenu, the main menu should go back to it’s original visual state.
The original visual state is a purple background with an arrow pointing to the right (MC::purple_bg)
The onRollover state is a grey background with an arrow pointing down (MC::grey_bg)
The Actionscript file is attached (XmlMenu.as)
Please let me know if you need or would like additional info. Thank you! - Brad
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Admin wrote: While I’m not yet a Mac convert, I’ve always been an iPod convert. I bought my first iPod in September of 2003 and can’t say I complained. Reminiscing, it was a 40GB 3rd generation that I paid $475 for on eBay. It wasn’t cheap, and I was fresh out of college, so it put a huge dent in my savings for a good period of time.But I can’t say I was disappointed in that investment. However, I always looked forward to something bigger. When the iPod Touches were announced in November, I ordered one immediately. It came and I have to say it’s pretty awesome. I didn’t go with the iPhone because…
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Today,
on (press) {_root.on_mc.gotoAndStop(3);
}
on (rollOver) {_root.on_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}
on (rollOut) {_root.on_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
}
on (release) {_root.lightblub_mc.gotoAndStop("on");
}Thanx for any help
Ben
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Admin wrote: I laugh inside when Microsoft loses ground, even in the slightest way. It’s particularly sweet when Redmond loses to a company like Novell, which owned the LAN market it pioneered through the 1990s, only to have it ripped from its grasp by the totally inferior Windows NT. This week Novell’s Miguel de Icaza announced the first public (pre-beta) release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in for media streaming and running rich Internet applications. Both products would compete in the space now dominated by Adobe’s Flash Player. In my…
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Today,
http://www.a4flash.com/design/viewtype2.php?id=MTA004
Would this be created with actionscript? I can do it as a timeline animation but I’m trying to spread my wings and get beyond the basics. Unfortunately, I also have a deadline!
I’ve seen some threads about fading grids but they seem to apply to square grid areas not rectangle like this.
I started playing with a source I found on one of the threads. The mask was originally a circle but when I changed it to a square, the squares became distorted.
Thanks in advance!
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